An opera by Rufus Wainwright is suddenly sounding like a pretty level-headed idea. Here’s the English National Ballet’s recent attempt to connect with broader audiences (via John Aizlewood’s Guardian blog). Sounds like they’ll be dancing to live music by Brian Wilson.
Ugh.
I love Aizlewood’s “god only knows” mantra. It really works with the [...]
Benn Widdey turns in another review of L.A. performance. Check it out, cuz this shit sounds hot, and it’s comin’ to NYC in the Spring!
(Photos by Scott Groller)
University professor cum downtown dance choreographer Victoria Marks revealed the latest of her socio-political movement explorations, Not About Iraq, at the recently renovated Gloria Kaufman Dance Theater at [...]
L.A. performance review by Benn Widdey
The Regina Klenjoski Dance Company took over the Torrance Art Museum this past weekend (September 28-29, 2007) and filled it with live installations and original music by Mark Fitchett.
In a nod to the ambulatory experience of being in a museum, Triptych: feet on concrete had the audience move [...]
Performance review by L.A. correspondent, Benn Widdey
(Photo by Daio Hoffman)
The Latina Dance Project came from Texas, North Carolina and upstate New York to spend the weekend in Los Angeles at the Bootleg Theater in Silver Lake (September 6-8, 2007). The group consists of four highly accomplished dance artists/educators who have joined forces to [...]
Remember what we said yesterday about classical music’s future and rich people?
Thanks to Arts Journal for aiming us at this article:
Passion play: Opera fan to will $10 million to Lyric
Times stringer Michael Kimmelman (making his Counter Critic debut!) reports from the annals of the Bayreuth Festival, a veritable relic of Wagnerian consummation that still has a ten-year waiting list to get into. Wonder how Kimmie pulled it off.
At any rate, the review of Katharina Wagner’s (great-grandaughter of big Rico) enlighted much about how American [...]
Like a good Counter Critic, I was brushing up on my George Bernard Shaw musical criticism yesterday (holy fuck! that shit is hooooot!). I started to notice quite soon that in all his criticism, stretching 75 years (1875-1950), there was no mention of composers like Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Bartok, and all those like them. [...]
L.A. correspondent, Benn Widdey, sends in the final installment of his coverage of the REDCAT theater’s titularly redundant NOW (New Original Works) Festival. This week’s review includes faux butoh, a few walkouts, and a Wiccan campfire ritual!
Review: Extreme Acts @ REDCAT
The final program of this year’s New Original Works Festival at REDCAT in Los Angles [...]
T-Bone Tommasini gets hot under the wool robe at the Glimmerglass Festival in Cooperstown in today’s Times.
It’s like he’s writing just for us…
“Orfeo [in Monteverdi's Orfeo], the young tenor Michael Slattery, is presented as a grungy rock star like Kurt Cobain, a pansexual and impulsive youth. As staged by Mr. Alden, when Orfeo sings his [...]
While The Times dance staff seems to believe there was nothing going on in the city over the past week, their coverage turns oversees and restrospective.
Macaulay can’t get over pirates (we know) and history in his first Bolshoi-does-London piece
Then he pretty much verbally molests an eighteen-year-old Russ, Ivan Vasiliev, and we quote: “My abiding [...]
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